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COUES KEY, 1884. UNION LIST, 1886. 
650. Plegadis guarauna. 187. Plegadis guarauna. 
651. Eudocimus albus. 184. Guara alba. 
652. ruber. ' [185.] rubra. 
653. Ajaja rosea. 183. Ajaja ajaja. 
648. Tantalops loculator. 188. Tantalus loculator. 
654. Mycteria americana. [189.] Mycteria americana. 
655. Ardea herodias. 194. Ardea herodias. 
656. occidentalis. 192. occidentalis. 
000. wardi. 193. wardi. 
657. )  seinered. [195.] cinerea. 
658. Herodias egretta. 196. egretta. 
659. Garzetta candidissima. 197. candidissima. 
660. Hydranassa tricolor. 199. tricolor ruficollis. 
661. Dichromanassa rufa. 198. rufa. 
662. Florida ccerulea. 200. coerulea. 
663. Butorides rufescens. 201. Ardea virescens. 
664. Nyctiardea grisea nevia. 202. Nycticorax nycticorax nevius. 
665. Nycterodius violaceus. 203. violaceus. 
666. Botaurus mugitans. 190. Botaurus lentiginosus. 
667. Ardetta exilis. 191. exilis. 
000. [Not admitted in the List. ] 
667 bis. Add: Ardetta neoxena. FLoripA Dwarr Bittern. Crown. back and tail 
black, glossed with green. Sides of head and throat chestnut, the feathers on the back of 
the neck tipped with greenish-black. Breast and under parts rufous chestnut, nearly uni- 
form, shading into blackish on the sides; under tail-coverts dull black; upper wing-coverts 
rufous chestnut, the under ones paler chestnut; all the remiges slaty plumbeous. Length 
10.80; wing 4.30; tarsus 1.40; bill 1.80. Southwestern Florida. The Auk, April, 1886, 
p. 262. 
668. Grus americana. 204. Grus americana. 
669. canadensis. 205. canadensis. 
670. pratensis. 206. mexicana. 
671. Aramus pictus. 207. Aramus giganteus. 
672. Parra gymnostoma. [288.] Jacana gymnostoma. 
673. Rallus longirostris crepitans. 211. Rallus longirostris crepitans. 
674. longirostris obsoletus. 210. obsoletus. 
675. longirostris saturatus. 211a. longirostris saturatus. 
676. elegans. 208. elegans. 
209. beldingi. 
676 bis. Add: Rallus beldingi. BripinG’s Raru. Most like R. elegans, but darker 
and richer colored throughout, the white bars of the flanks much narrower, the blackish bars 
very distinct. Wing 5.70; tail 2.50; bill 2.15; tarsus 1.90. A species which takes its 
place in the Key under our ruling to admit the islands pertaining to Lower California. 
Espiritu Santo Island, Gulf of California. Pr. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., v. 1882, p. 345. 
677. Rallus virginianus. 212. Rallus virginianus. 
678. Porzana maruetta. [213.] Porzana porzana. 
679. carolina. 214. carolina. 
680. noveboracensis. 215. noveboracensis. 
681. jamaicensis. 216. jamaicensis. 
